Social Media - A Critical Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Christian Fuchs is professor at and the Director of the University of Westminster's Communication and Media Research Institute. He is also the Director of the Westminster Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Westminster. He is editor of the journal /tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique/ (http://www.triple-c.at) and author of more than 300 publications in the field of the political economy and critical theory of media, communications and the Internet. He is a member of the European Sociological Association's Executive Committee. As well as /Social Media: A Critical Introduction/ (2014), he is the author of /Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on Capital Volume 1/ (2016), /Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media/ (2015), /Digital Labour and Karl Marx/ (2014), /OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism/ (2014), /Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies/ (2011), and /Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age /(2008). Klappentext Now more than ever, we need to understand social media - the good as well as the bad. We need critical knowledge that helps us to navigate the controversies and contradictions of this complex digital media landscape. Only then can we make informed judgements about what's happening in our media world, and why. Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape. This book is the essential, critical guide for all students of media studies and sociology. Readers will never look at social media the same way again. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media? Social Media and the Arab Spring Social Media and the Occupy Movement Unpaid Work for the Huffington Post 1.1. What is Social about Social Media? Information and Cognition Communication Community Collaboration and Cooperative Work Information, Communication, Collaboration and Community Are Forms of Sociality. But What is Now Social About Facebook? 1.2. What is Critical Thinking and Why Does it Matter? Power Asking Critical Questions about Social Media and the Arab Spring Asking Critical Questions about Social Media and the Occupy Movement Asking Critical Questions about Unpaid Work for the Huffington Post 1.3. What is Critical Theory? You Want Me to Read Karl Marx? Are You Nuts? Why the Hell Should I Do That? So, You Tell Me That Marx Invented the Internet? How Can One Define Critical Theory? 1) Critical Theory Has a Normative Dimension 2) Critical Theory is a Critique of Domination and Exploitation 3) Critical Theory Uses Dialectical Reasoning as a Method of Analysis 4) Critical Theory is Connected to Struggles for a Just and Fair Society, it is an Intellectual Dimension of Struggles 5) Ideology Critique: Critical Theory is a Critique of Ideology 6) Critical Theory is a Critique of the Political Economy 1.4. Critical Theory Approaches The Frankfurt School - Not a Sausage, But a Critical Theory! Critical Political Economy of Media and Communication - Studying the Media and Communication Critically Critical Political Economy and the Frankfurt School are two Critical Theories. But do we really need two of them? Critical Theory and Critique of the Political Economy of Social MediaPART ONE: FOUNDATIONS2. What is Social Media? 2.1. Web 2.0 and Social Media Web 2.0 Critiques of Web 2.0 and Social Media Optimism How New are Social Media? 2.2. The Need of Social Theo...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christian Fuchs
• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.12.2014
• EAN: 9781446257319
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-5731-9
• Abmessung: 170 mm x 239 mm x 16 mm
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik